 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923
...at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was...in principle, socially, morally and politically.' But Stephens added with some emphasis, ' Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested... | |
 | Walter Gaston Shotwell - United States - 1923
...was right. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African race was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and... | |
 | American literature - 1863
...stands may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...the laws of Nature, that it was wrong in principle, so. cially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with ; but the... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 37 pages
...were, thai the enslatement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was vrtmff in principle, socially, morally, and politically....Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time.... | |
 | Henry Watson Wilbur - History - 1914 - 220 pages
...admitted that "the prevailing ideas entertained" by Thomas Jefferson and "most of the leading Statesmen at the time of the formation of the Old Constitution...enslavement of the African was in violation of the "The game, p. 337. laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically."... | |
 | Clint Bolick - Social Science - 152 pages
...principles of civil rights: The prevailing ideas entertained by ... most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. ... Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races,... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Robert A. Licht - History - 1990 - 98 pages
...of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution [which is to say our Constitution], were that the enslavement of the African...Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the... | |
 | Shearer Davis Bowman - History - 1993 - 384 pages
...ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old (US) constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; and that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically." The new Confederate government,... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - History - 1996 - 418 pages
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained hy him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African ISMS in violation, of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically.... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - History - 1997 - 505 pages
...the next to highest authority. The extract said in part : "The prevailing ideas entertained ... at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its foundations are laid, its... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him, and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature ; that it was wrong in principle, socially,... 
